Blue Origin’s New Shepard is named after whom?

Jeff Bezos named Blue Origin’s New Shepard after Alan Shepard, America’s first astronaut._x000D_

How long was New Shepard in space?

_x000D_The New Shepard flight lasted 10 minutes and 10 seconds — five minutes shy of Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 flight in 1961. Shepard’s daughters, Laura and Julie, were introduced at a press event a few hours later.